Theodore Roosevelt26th President of the U.S. and
winner of 1906 Nobel Peace Prize

"It is not the critic who
counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the
doer of a deed could have done better.
The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
who does actually strive to do deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends oneself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly…"
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ar better it is to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." 2